cliff he can blame the republicans and he can do the tax cuts on the rich thing, he's the president. i mean, you know, as has been said we don't really remember who the leader of the house was when hoover was president. i mean, you know -- ultimately it's his economy. >> it's his country and it's his economy and it's his government but i think one of the things that is instructive we are now down to such a tiny perspective deal the tough issues are not being dealt with at all. even the sequestration which was supposed to be so horrible, the cuts in other many practices supposed to be so horrible we would never let them happen will almost certainly happen because there is not time to deal with that in the next 24 hours. >> it's a sad -- >> the frustrating thing for me isn't this what we really need to do? i think washington is incapable of making a deal that will help the country. what we're talking about here is a deal that's going to help the politicians. it'll help the president. we're arguing it's going to help boehner. that is not the problem. the problem is we have a really big